alt Hacker News>no upgrade path to Windows 11 because my CPU was 5 years too old apparently.
Let's be real. It's because new systems support DRM and Microsoft has been captured by the media company lobby.
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donmcronald • yesterday at 5:42 PM
It’s way worse than that. It’s for verified identity and attestation.
badc0ffee • yesterday at 5:35 PM
If they didn't, people might start capturing copyrighted streaming content and sharing torrents of it. We cannot allow that to happen.
realusername • yesterday at 5:18 PM
Of course it is, there's no real requirement to have a TPM, plenty of people made a version with that requirement patched out and the system works fine.
We had that announcement of a new "Verifiable" Linux project from Pottering, other kernel devs, and a bunch of ex-microsoft employees yesterday. Gives me the heebie jeebies.